Combining road film, revenge drama, and black comedy elements, Driving with My Wife’s Lover is the accomplished feature-length debut from Kim Tae Sik. Kim had previously served as assistant director on Park Chul Soo’s Kazoku Cinema, in addition to years of television producing and directing shorts films like 32nd Dec.: Where is Mr. President?, and [...]
Driving With My Wife’s Lover - Korean Movie - English Sub DVD
SELaplana, 28 July 2007 My Beautiful Short Films Vol. 3
My Beautiful Short Films Vol. 3 is the third anthology in the short film series released by the Korean Academy of Film Arts under KOFIC. This collection consists of nine short films made by directors while studying at the academy and includes works from Park Heon Soo (Two Guys), Oh Seuk Geun (Love is a [...]
Hot for Teacher (Who Slept With Her) - Korean Movie - English Sub DVD
Strict teachers, all those hours inside four walls, all your desires and youthful energy repressed. School is an endless drag - until she comes along. Uhm Ji Young (Kim Sa Rang of A Love to Kill) has a perfect body and metric tons of sex appeal, and she knows it. Needless to say, all the [...]
The Evil Twin - Korean Movie - English Sub DVD
In South Korea, summer is the season for horror films, and the first to hit theaters in 2007 was Kim Ji Hwan’s directorial debut, The Evil Twin. A rare entry into the historical horror genre, this Joseon period chiller offers a horrifying interpretation of the classic Cinderella story of Kongji and Patzzi. One of the [...]
Mr. Lee Vs. Mr. Lee - Korean Movie - English Sub DVD
Happy families are all alike, but unhappy families are a totally different story, as can be seen in director Shim Kwang Jin’s 2006 film Mr. Lee vs. Mr. Lee (a.k.a. Long Day’s Journey into Night). The “Mr. Lee” in the title refers to both the protagonist and the lead, veteran actor Lee Dae Geun. Having [...]
The Fox With Nine Tails - Korean Movie - English Sub DVD
The West has Dracula, a creature that is widely known and feared. In Korea there is a legendary female ghost looking for a true love, a fox with nine tails. This 1994 film is a contemporary fantasy about a woman who is half human and half fox. In order for her to become a complete [...]
Wedding Crashers
With Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as a pair of brazen wedding crashers, this buddy/romantic comedy milks a few big laughs from its foolproof premise. Under the direction of David Dobkin (who previously worked with Wilson on Shanghai Knights), the movie ranges from bawdy romp to mushy romance, and that tonal identity crisis curtails the [...]
